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- H. A. GOWLES.

WHIP.

No. 397,456. Patented Feb. 5, 1889.

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HENRY A. COlVLES, OF VESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE BAY STATE \VHIP COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

, SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 397,456, dated February 5, 1889.

Application filed June 8, 1888. Serial No. 276,482. (No model.)

To all when), it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY A. -CO\YLES, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Westfield, in the county of .l'lainpden and Stateof lllassaehusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in \Vhips, of which the following" is a specification.

This invention in whips relates particularly to the formation of the cores thereof, the object of which is to so improve the construction of a whip that it will be capable of all required elasticity and yet be possessed internally of a considerable tensile resistance, whereby the whip will be normally retained undetlected, will have the nature of a whalebone whip, and will be most durable, all at a minimum cost of production; and the invention consists in the employment and combination of the 'arious parts, all substantially as will hereim ttter more fully appear, andbe set forth in the claim.

Reference is to' be had to the accompanying drawings, in which l i eurc l is a portion of the whip, partly in side elevation, partly in central longitudinal section, and at one end with the outer covering portions shown as successivelystripped from the relatively next internal parts for better illustration. Fig. 2 is a crosssection of the whip shown in Fig. 1.

This whip contains the [bllowing elements: The core center, (1, is of wire or wires, preferably of steel wires spring tempered, as well known in the art. Surrounding the center (t there is a nu mber of strands, Z), of catgut, stout linen thread, or analogous material, extending lengthwise ot' the core, and, of course, parallel to each other. A plaited covering, 0, of textilematerial, covers the longitudinal strips 1) and completes the core of the whip. Steel cores to whips are not new, and such coroshave been covered by a braided or plaited covering, but, so far as is known, without the interposed longitudinal strips h. After the construction. of the core the whip is made up by applying the sidings (Z ofrattan,

which are cementetl to said eore-plaiting' and surrounded by parallel longitudinal strands of eatgut or fibrous material, a plaited corecovering, and a surrounding whip-cover of usual material connected to said whip-core, substantially as described.

'I'IENRY A. (.OWLES.

\Vitnesses:

ARTHUR S. KUEIL, FRANK GRANT. 

